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FRIDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors often ignore or misunderstand what patients want in terms of treatment, and this "preference misdiagnosis" can be harmful to patients, experts say.
The authors of a new report say a doctor cannot recommend the right treatment without fully understanding a patient's preferences, yet evidence suggests there are often large gaps between what patients want and what doctors think they want.
For example, one study found that doctors believed that 71 percent of breast cancer patients rated keeping their breast as a top priority, but the actual number was just 7 percent, said Albert Mulley from the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science in Hanover, N.H., and colleagues.
Another study found that patients with dementia placed much less value than doctors on staying alive with severely declining mental function. And a third study found that patients may change their treatment preference when informed about its risks and benefits. For example, 40 percent fewer men preferred surgery for benign prostate disease after they learned about the risks of sexual dysfunction.
Ensuring that treatment matches a patient's preferences is not as simple as asking what a patient wants, but requires three specific steps, said the authors of the article, published online Nov. 8 in the BMJ.
The three steps are: a mindset of scientific detachment; the use of data to arrive at a provisional diagnosis; and including the patient in three phases of decision making -- team, option and decision talk.
Along with being the ethical thing for doctors to do, fully understanding patients' preferences may also help reduce health-care costs, the researchers said. They noted that studies show that engaged and informed patients often choose to have less-intensive care and are more careful about having lots of procedures.
"It is tantalizing to consider that budget-challenged health systems around the world could simultaneously give patients what they want and cut costs," the researchers concluded in a journal news release.
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Competition is healthy for the GOP By: Chris Chocola November 30, 2009 05:30 AM EDT
There is much talk lately of a civil war that either is or will soon — any day now! — destroy the Republican Party. As head of one of the organizations supposedly plunging the GOP into the bloody conflict, I am unconvinced. There is certainly intramural tension in the party, but there are supposed to be debates and competition between leaders and among ideas within an organization that considers itself a governing coalition. In 2008, remember, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were at each other's throats for months, and come November, the Democratic Party was more unified and energized than it had been in a generation. That wasn't a civil war; it was the regular season getting ready for the playoffs. In politics, just as in the economy, competition works. It is not only natural in these settings but healthy and beneficial. Competitive parties hone their platforms, test messages and policy ideas and foster and elevate dynamic leaders. By contrast, political parties dominated by a single personality become like free markets distorted by monopolies or overrun by government. They lose their competitive edge, stifle creativity and innovation and ultimately lose customer confidence. They lose touch, break promises and forget and neglect their core mission. That's what happened to the Republicans in 2006 and 2008 and what is happening to the Democrats now. President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are marching their party off a cliff. Dozens of House Democrats are already dead careers walking because of the cap-and-trade and health care votes. Their leaders do not care. They feel they have a once-in-a-lifetime majority that must be used to pass their agenda — trillions in new spending, new taxes and new debt. This has, in turn, given the Republican Party a rare opportunity to win back the trust of the American people, who according to recent polls remain as intuitively conservative as they have been for decades. The reason Washington Republicans have not yet capitalized on that opportunity is because, in practice, they are not as intuitively conservative as the American people — not on the fiscal and economic matters now weighing heavily on the minds of the electorate.
Most Americans today want their government to be smaller and taxes to be lower. They want politicians to stop trying to micromanage the economy. They want to make their own decisions about health care and energy and almost everything else, too. And they want to stop paying for corporate bailouts they themselves could never get. The American people are economic conservatives, as they have been for decades.
That's why Republicans all across the country are rejecting both candidates who are handpicked by party bosses and GOP incumbents who support wasteful "stimulus" packages and bailouts. That's why they are drawn to new candidates with new ideas.
If the Republican Party truly wishes to regain the trust of the American people, it should embrace the competition rather than certain competitors. After all, no one is entitled to a seat in Congress. (It's when people think they are that the trouble usually starts.) Let the voters decide who the party's new leaders will be and what mandate they will carry to Washington — they certainly couldn't do worse than the top-down, Washington-wise party that lost 54 congressional seats and the White House in the past two elections. The media are feverishly branding economic conservatives as extremists, but the common-sense ideas now unifying conservatives — limited government, lower taxes and spending, individual liberty and personal responsibility — are radical only to career politicians and liberal activists. In the real world, folks know limited government leads to unlimited opportunities. Competition works as much in politics as in economics. It rewards creativity and punishes complacency; it welcomes new blood and discards outdated ideas and ineffective leaders. It is not surprising, then, that entrenched politicians are as suspicious of political competition as large corporations are of economic competition. On a level playing field, they have the most to lose. But that's the whole point. On a level playing field, the best person — or product, service or candidate — wins. Nations, economies and, yes, political parties that embrace competition are energized and strengthened for it. Chris Chocola is president of the Club for Growth.


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Lt. Jim Brady winces when he thinks back to the scandal that rocked the Los Angeles Police Department a decade ago. Although the agency had previously weathered harsh scrutiny -- in the Rodney King beating, for instance -- this time was different. A group of elite cops was unmasked as drug-dealing, crime-minded gang members. The violation of the public trust was so great that the federal government placed the once-proud Police Department under U.S. oversight for eight years.
But on a recent morning, Brady -- who investigates use of force by LAPD officers -- said he wishes the change had come sooner. Today, there are so many checks and balances, so many hoops to jump through, so many layers of oversight, that cops can't get away with things.
"If we did things the way we do now, we would have caught them," he said.
Over the next few months, a handful of New Orleans city attorneys and local and federal law enforcement officials will pound out a document that, like the one in Los Angeles, will profoundly change policing in this city. It's a fix imposed on only the most dysfunctional police departments, where rogue cops flourish in part because the systems in place for officers to police themselves are useless or nonexistent.
The end product is called a consent decree: an agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and city officials that will lay out guidelines and impose restrictions that must be followed to right the wrongs of the New Orleans Police Department.
Historically, decrees have forced police departments to overhaul their policies and change the way they report crime, use force and address race and community relations. Officers are forced to police in ways that don't violate the rights of citizens, and they must document everything along the way.
More than a dozen cities -- including Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Los Angeles -- have gone through this process. Their experiences show that wholesale reform is hard and expensive, often costing millions for oversight, new technology and training.
Consent-decree veterans -- community activists, police and city officials -- say that to succeed, departments must shed their most deeply ingrained traditions and embrace change. How quickly the mandates are implemented, and how sincerely they are adopted, depends in large part on the person at the top: the chief. Civilian oversight also plays a key role in ensuring reforms stick over the long haul, police observers said.
"What we are looking for is fundamental culture change," Roy Austin, the attorney heading the U.S. Department of Justice probe of the NOPD said during a recent speech in New Orleans. "Meaning that every officer who comes on the force understands exactly what he or she is expected to do, exactly how they are to engage in constitutional policing, exactly how it is they are to interact with the public and the community."
The idea, Austin continued, is to foster change that is still in place 20 years from now. When the consent decree comes to a close, it's up to local leaders to make sure the department doesn't revert to its old ways.
Age of consent decrees
Since the Justice Department released a blistering 115-page assessment of the NOPD in March, officials have remained tight-lipped about what the consent decree will look like.
This much is known: The order will be strict. Oversight may last a decade, which would make it one of the longest mandates of its kind. And an independent monitor will oversee the reforms, as will a federal judge who can impose penalties if the department fails to meet benchmarks.
In Cincinnati, the relationship between the independent monitor and police brass was sometimes strained, with monitor Saul Green complaining a couple years in that commanders refused to allow his staff to ride along with officers and tossed one of his employees out of police headquarters.
But in his final report, issued in 2008, Green concluded Cincinnati's makeover was "one of the most successful police reform efforts ever undertaken in this country."
Federal consent decrees over police departments were made possible by the 1994 Violent Crime Control Act, which gave the Justice Department the power to sue agencies for a "pattern or practice" of civil rights violations by cops. Many civil rights advocates complained that the Bush administration grew unenthusiastic about these probes, particularly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Now, they're back. The Justice Department recently announced that it has 17 open probes of law enforcement departments, a record number.
New Orleans was one of the first cities to capture the attention of Obama's Justice Department. While Mayor Mitch Landrieu invited federal investigators to examine the department, many in the city believed they were coming anyway, spurred by the breathtaking police misconduct after Hurricane Katrina.
Some expect the New Orleans decree to reshape not just how the NOPD deals with bad behavior by cops, but also officers' day-to-day activities.
"If you really want to address accountability, you have to address what the police officers are doing out there on the street," said Samuel Walker, a Nebraska criminologist.
Decrees in departments as disparate as Los Angeles and Pittsburgh tend to zero in on the specific civil rights problem or problems that drew the Justice Department's attention.
Many agreements require more detailed reporting when an officer uses force -- for instance, when he hits a combative arrestee with a nightstick. In Pittsburgh, the first city to go under a decree, officers for the first time were required to fill out substantive reports after such incidents.
Thomas Streicher, the former Cincinnati police chief, said his city's consent decree transformed the way the department analyzed police shootings. Police began to look not only at whether they were justified in shooting, but whether officers could have used less-deadly tactics.
"Instead of creating a condition where police have to use force, create a condition that eradicates the need to use force," Streicher said.
When police received reports of an armed person, they began setting up a staging area to approach the suspect. A group of officers would then approach, giving police a psychological advantage, he said.
Many departments under consent decrees have created elaborate computer systems to warn supervisors when an officer has amassed a certain number of complaints, used too many sick days or been involved in repeated shootings. New Orleans created such a system in the 1990s, but it fell out of use before Hurricane Katrina. This same thing happened in Los Angeles, and the system's second incarnation cost tens of millions of dollars and was a key component in their decree.
In Pittsburgh, police supervisors meet four times a year to discuss troublesome officers, said Deputy Chief Paul Donaldson. "What we try to do is ... try to stop the problems before they happen," he said.
The reports by Cincinnati's monitor delved into the nitty-gritty of recent police interactions with civilians. Did police use pepper spray properly? Did police dogs bite too many people? What kind of internal investigations followed "takedowns" or use of Tasers? Each quarter, the monitor made an assessment.
New Orleanians should expect all of those changes and more. The Justice Department concluded NOPD officers too often use force, routinely fail to report it to supervisors and, when they do, are rarely investigated thoroughly.
And the Justice Department critique was broader, questioning the NOPD's core strategies. For instance, despite pledges to implement so-called "community policing," the report said, the NOPD prioritizes specialized units that focus on making arrests in "hot spots."
This emphasis suggests the New Orleans consent decree could borrow from Cincinnati's unique "collaborative agreement," a supplemental document signed by the city and community leaders that required the Police Department to implement certain community-policing strategies.
In a recent interview, Christy Lopez, one of the Justice Department lawyers who conducted the NOPD investigation, said trying to foster engagement between the department and community will be a goal of the decree. It will also be used as a barometer to measure the success of changes made by the NOPD.
"It's not just whether paragraph 100 to 150 were complied with and the Police Department has a policy, but what are we seeing on the street," Lopez said.
Austin cautioned that the consent decree in New Orleans will not be an exact mirror of any other.
"Keep in mind that we are taking a close look at those past consent decrees ourselves to see what worked and did not work," he said. "I think we are looking at ways to make the consent-decree process a better process."
Chief can make, break reform
Regardless of what shape the consent decree takes, observers agree that success is dependent on a police chief who embraces its implementation.
"If you have a leader who is not committed to it, who has it stuffed down his or her throat, who doesn't believe in it, who doesn't think it is necessary, it is going to be very difficult to get long-term results," said David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who has studied consent decrees. "On the other hand, if you have somebody who believes that change is necessary and is going to be helpful in making it, you have a chance to get some of it to work."
In Los Angeles, the police chief was a relative outsider: William Bratton, a superstar in the policing world, barreled into the troubled department not long after its consent decree was hammered out. To many in Los Angeles, Bratton's lack of local ties was a clear bonus, allowing him to diagnose problems his predecessors overlooked and shake things up quickly, without fear of offending old friends.
NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas is both insider and outsider. He is a product of the NOPD, an 21-year veteran who left for a decade to serve as the head of police departments in Washington state and Nashville, Tenn., before returning in 2010 to take the superintendent's post.
For his part, Serpas has defended his ability to reform the NOPD, saying he has acted as a "change agent" in every department he has led. He was the right-hand man of NOPD chief Richard Pennington, who launched numerous reforms in the 1990s during a period of improvement at NOPD.
Police observers in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh credited their police chiefs with embracing the reforms demanded by their respective consent decrees, although both chiefs were, like Serpas, products of their departments. In both cities, civil rights lawyers who led community efforts to expose unsavory practices by police eventually lauded the chiefs.
Scott Greenwood, a Cincinnati attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said Streicher became a surprisingly reliable ally.
"Even if it was not evident in his early years he would become a reformer, he became a reformer," Greenwood said. "It gave him the framework he needed to transform the department."
Greenwood's counterpart in Pittsburgh also commended former chief Robert McNeilly, who took the reins of the Pittsburgh force just as the ACLU filed an explosive lawsuit saying scores of complaints about officers were never properly investigated.
McNeilly recalled the subsequent federal intervention as an opportunity to force city leaders to pour money into an antiquated department. It also helped him subvert powerful police union heads who had balked at immediately implementing proposed changes.
"When Justice came in, I didn't realize my initiatives would be included," McNeilly said. "Once I read it and saw my initiatives in there, I understood this was the way I could get things done."
Lasting change?
Given that the first consent decree was imposed just 14 years ago, questions remain about whether the changes they force are lasting.
In Detroit, a decree initiated in 2003 is still ongoing and has been beset by numerous setbacks and scandals. In Oakland, Calif., the police chief recently quit and blamed local bureaucracy for the agency's failings. Initially set for a five-year period, the Oakland decree is now entering its ninth year. The judge overseeing the reforms has threatened federal receivership.
The key to avoiding such pitfalls, by most accounts, is to meet the decree's requirements on the front end and, after the decree expires, to keep aggressive monitoring in place.
In that respect, New Orleans may be ahead of the game, with an independent police monitor's office well under way. But the Justice Department has already raised questions about whether the agency has the resources or the "latitude" to handle its work.
The monitor, Susan Hutson, recently told the City Council that she needs to triple the size of her four-person staff to meet the duties as outlined by city ordinance.
Hutson expects her office will take on an increased role once the decree is in place, and it will try to keep the department from backsliding once federal oversight is lifted.
"At the end of the day, we at the Department of Justice parachute in and then leave," federal attorney Austin noted in his recent speech. "We are not here to stay and we shouldn't be here to stay."
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I saw this QR-3D project on Rockpool Candy's blog and wondered if a ribbon woven QR code would work. Firstly I created a QR code here (for this very blog!), and transferred the code to squared paper, so that I could follow the pattern easier. QR codes are made up a grid of 33 x 33. So I laid down 33 strips of white ribbon, and set to work weaving the black ribbon in.Finally finished! Interestingly the ribbon woven QR code doesn't scan, but a photo of it does. I wonder if this is because at a smaller resolution it hides the imperfections? I quite like the look at the underside - a QR code in negative.
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Principal Investigators: Professor Moses Kamya, MU and Dr. Diane Havlir, UCSF Co-Investigators: Jane Achan, MU; Veronica Ades, NYU; Edwin Charlebois, UCSF; Tamara Clark, UCSF; Deborah Cohan, UCSF; Grant Dorsey, UCSF; Maggie Feeney, UCSF; Bryan Greenhouse, UCSF; Lena Kim, UCSF; Pius Okong, Nsambya Hospital; Phil Rosenthal, UCSF; Ted Ruel, UCSF; Sera Young, Cornell University
Coordinators: Abel Kakuru, IDRC; Gloria Ikilezi, IDRC; Bridget Nzarubara, IDRC; Beth Osterbauer, UCSF; Barnabus Natamba, Cornell University; Julia Mwesigwa, IDRC; Paul Natureeba, IDRC; Flavia Luwedde, IDRC; Victor Birgira, IDRC; James Kapisi, IDRC; Steven Kinara, IDRC
Funded by: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)/NIH
Location: Tororo, Uganda
The PROMOTE program establishes new approaches to reduce HIV and malaria burdens in sub-Saharan Africa, and enhances the public health approach to both diseases. The PROMOTE program is funded by NIH and protease inhibitor (PI) drugs donated by Abbott Labs and consists of 5 projects. Three of the projects are interlinked hypothesis-based intervention cohort trials. The other 2 projects are linked to all of the clinical trials and utilize data and specimens from each of these trials to characterize nutrition and drug resistance. The PROMOTE program is being conducted in Tororo District, Uganda, a rural area with HIV seroprevalence of 8% and malaria transmission intensity of 562 infective bites per person year, and started accruing participants in October 2009. The five projects of this program are:
A randomized open label trial of HIV protease inhibitors for the prevention of malaria in HIV-infected children. The study enrolled over 150 HIV-infected children with the aim of determining if the use of PI-based (LPV/r) ART versus NNRTI-based ART among HIV-infected children will reduce the incidence density of malaria in children.
PROMOTE-Pregnant Women and Infants (PIs): A randomized open label trial of protease inhibitors to reduce malaria morbidity in HIV-infected pregnant women and infants. This study enrolled nearly 400 HIV-infected pregnant women with the primary objective of determining if the use of PI-based ART versus non-PI ART among HIV-infected pregnant women leads to reduced rates of placental malaria as measured by Giemsa-stained smear or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of placental blood.
A randomized trial of monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine versus daily trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole versus no therapy for the prevention of malaria. This study enrolled 400 HIV-unexposed infants and 200 HIV-exposed infants with the aim of comparing the incidence of malaria among these infants enrolled at 4-5 months of age and randomized to one of the four arms listed above until they reach the age of 24 months and an additional 12 months of follow up after study treatment for rebound malaria evaluation..
This project evaluates the nutritional status of PROMOTE program participants, identifying factors which increase the risk of nutritional deficiency and subsequent poor clinical outcomes, correlating levels of malnutrition and ART pharmacokinetic exposure and response, and pilots a nutritional supplementation strategy tailored to routine practice in resource limited settings.
PROMOTE-Drug Resistance: This program project includes three randomized clinical trials to test whether long-term use of chemopreventive antimalarial therapies in children or of antiretroviral protease inhibitors in children or pregnant women will decrease the incidence of malaria and related malarial morbidity. These interventions offer the opportunity to significantly decrease the incidence and morbidity of malaria, the most important infectious disease in children and pregnant women in Africa. However, repeated or chronic therapy for infectious diseases routinely entails a risk of selection of drug-resistant parasites. This is a particular concern for malaria, as drug resistance already limits treatment options, and control efforts based of intermittent therapy have relied heavily on antifolates, against which resistance is increasing.
Key Publications:
1. Achan J, Kakuru A, Ikilezi G, Ruel T, Clark TD, Nsanzabana C, Charlebois ED, Aweeka F, Dorsey G, Rosenthal PJ, Havlir DV, Kamya MR. Antiretroviral agents and prevention of malaria in HIV-infected Ugandan children.N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 29;367(22):2110-8.PMID: 23190222
2. Gandhi M, Mwesigwa J, Aweeka F, Plenty A, Charlebois E, Huang Y, Clark TD, Ades V, Natureeba P, Luwedde F, Achan J, Kamya MR, Havlir DV, Cohan D. Hair and Plasma Data Show that Lopinavir, Ritonavir and Efavirenz All Transfer from Mother to Infant in Utero, but only Efavirenz Transfers via Breastfeeding.AIDS. In press.
3. Ikilezi G, Achan J, Kakuru A, Ruel T, Charlebois E, Clark TD, Rosenthal PJ, Havlir DV, Kamya MR, Dorsey G. Prevalence of asymptomatic parasitemia and gametocytemia among HIV-infected Ugandan children randomized to receive different antiretroviral therapies. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Jan 28. PMID: 23358639
4. Osterbauer B, Kapisi J, Bigira V, Mwangwa F, Kinara S, Kamya MR, Dorsey G. Factors associated with malaria parasitemia, malnutrition, and anemia among HIV-exposed and unexposed Ugandan infants. Malar J. 2012 Dec 27;11(1):432. PMID: 23270614
5. Young S, Murray K, Mwesigwa J, Natureeba P, Osterbauer B, Achan J, Arinaitwe E, Clark T, Ades V, Plenty A, Charlebois E, Ruel T, Kamya M, Havlir D, Cohan D. Maternal Nutritional Status Predicts Adverse Birth Outcomes among HIV-Infected Rural Ugandan Women Receiving Combination Antiretroviral Therapy. PLoS ONE 2012, 7:e41934. PMID: 22879899
6. Nsanzabana C, Rosenthal PJ. In vitro activity of antiretroviral drugs against Plasmodium falciparum. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Nov;55(11):5073-7. Epub 2011 Aug 29. PMID: 21876053


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National security fears lead to restrictions on proposed merger.
Display-level reckoning for GPUs.
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Preparation and Characterization of High-Temperature Thermally Stable Alumina Composite Membrane
Lin, Yue-Sheng and Burggraaf, A.J. (1991) Preparation and Characterization of High-Temperature Thermally Stable Alumina Composite Membrane. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 74 (1-4). pp. 219-224. ISSN 0002-7820
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Abstract: | A crack- and pinhole-free composite membrane consisting of an α-alumina support and a modified γ-alumina top layer which is thermally stable up to 1100°C was prepared by the sol–gel method. The supported thermally stable top layer was made by dipcoating the support with a boehmite sol doped with lanthanum nitrate. The temperature effects on the microstructure of the (supported and unsupported) La-doped top layers were compared with those of a common γ-alumina membrane (without doping with lanthanum), using the gas permeability and nitrogen adsorption porosimetry data. After sintering at 1100°C for 30 h, the average pore diameter of the La-doped alumina top layer was 17 nm, compared to 109 nm for the common alumina top layer. Addition of poly(vinyl alcohol) to the colloid boehmite precursor solution prevented formation of defects in the γ-alumina top layer. After sintering at temperatures higher than 900°C, the common alumina top layer with addition of poly(vinyl alcohol) exhibits a bimodal pore distribution. The La-doped alumina top layer (also with addition of poly(vinyl alcohol)) retains a monopore distribution after sintering at 1200°C. |
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My lament about the lack of attention by the White House to the MorePeaceCorps campaign, and the lack of juice by the NPCA, created an outcry (well, at least from one recent employee of the Peace Corps), who came out of the woodwork in defense of Jody Olsen. And I wasn't even attacking Jody!
You can read his comment to me.  Roger, who is a good guy, was upset at my tone, I guess, and that I had called Jody a Utah "Republican."
He has a point. Calling anyone a 'Republican" today is a slap in the face, Sorry, Jody!
You can read what Roger says in his comment: "Your public vitriol about Jody Olsen is misplaced, inappropriate, inaccurate, and unattractive. Jody may be Republican - who knows? - but that is totally irrelevant to her performance, dedication, and thoroughly decent personage…."
First, all I said about Jody (besides being a Republican) was that she was "passing out hall passes in the Peace Corps." I'm saying that metaphorially, Roger!
However, the recent piece about the Peace Corps in the Boston Globe had the reporter calling Jody for a comment on the decline in numbers within the agency and she refused to comment, won't even come to the phone. What else is she not doing at the agency?
What I know about Jody is what other Peace Corps women have said about her. When Jody first returned to the agency in the Bush administration (see, I don't have to say, Republican) the women who knew her and worked with her when she was with Paul Coverdell said she was a lovely lady with no back bone.
We know she let Gaddi Vasquez, who was not an RPCV, walk all over her when he was head of the agency. Gaddi took off on those jaunts overseas and Jody–the only RPCV in the senior staff–never once left the U.S. Did they not trust her with PCVs or foreign officials because she was an RPCV or a woman?Â
When I mentioned to my women friends how the men that I knew thought Jody was just great, they'd smile and shake their heads and say, "boys are such easy lays when it comes to pretty girls."


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Facebook Question: Bloggers Who Blawg
It's Facebook question of the week time! This week's question comes from Mark Robins, the CEO of LawyerLocate in Canada (I love my Canadians!).
He asks, "Lawyers who blog and use the term "blawg," are they elitist and do they risk alienating the public they are trying to reach?"
I answer his question in the video (if you're reading this in your Reader, you can click here and watch).
This weekend, I will be in Toronto for PodCamp! I'm on a panel with Danny Brown and Eden Spodek AND I'm doing a live Inside PR recording with my co-hosts, Martin Waxman and Joe Thornley. I told you I love my Canadians!
If you have a question for us, or want to pick my brain, go leave us a note on our Facebook wall! Hope to see you in Toronto!
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Gini Dietrich is the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, an integrated marketing communications firm. She is the author of Spin Sucks, co-author of Marketing in the Round, and co-host of Inside PR. She also is the lead blogger at Spin Sucks and is the founder of Spin Sucks Pro.
So what does that make Desperate Dawg? :)
Great panels this weekend, miss, and really bummed we couldn't hang out afterward. Next time, Chicago. :)
Connie Crosby blogs at SLAW.ca, an award-winning Canadian group blog by and for the legal community. You should ask what she thinks about "blawg" when you meet her at PodCamp Toronto. Looking forward to meeting you in real life tomorrow.
OMG I wish I was in Toronto this week. Podcamp sounds fabulous ! Would be great if someone could video the live InsidePR and add that to the feed too. Podcasters Emporium do this from time to time and it's a great way of connecting and building an audience.
I think #blawg makes a nice tag for Twitter and helps people differentiate law blogs from other blogs in a search. I don't use the term generally--not because it's elitist but because it's trite.
I do love Arrested Development's Bob Lobb Law Blawg. (Say it out loud.)
The term "blawg" orginated because lawyers were so late to the social media game that legal bloggers occupied an outsider niche. In that sense, the term was useful shorthand in publicizing a nascent trend within the profession.
But as the practice (and hype) of blogging has grown in legal marketing, practitioners recognize that they have more to gain by dropping the "blawgger" label and identifying with the mainstream of social media. Although it pops up from time to time to sound cheeky, you don't find legal bloggers regularly using "blawg" or its variants.
My sense is that its use is vestigial, confined to certain use cases, like the ABA lists/awards.
Gini thanks for your written answer , but again I think that even from a PR perspective it still does not ring right.
After all do these Law firms and Lawyers not want to get clients to see them as professionals?
more and more today "bloggers" are being viewed as today's Writers, journalists etc!
I am thinking that Lawyers would want to be part of that Larger group.
I think we should ALL start blawgging instead of blogging. It sounds so superior. Conjures up visions of a shrimp cocktail in one hand and a 5-carat diamond on the other.
The goal of any writing is to paint an apprpriate image in the reader's mind. The use of jargon does not accomplish this at all. In this case, it even appears to be an attempt by the writers/users of the term to deliberately separate by declaring how very kewl they are.
Practices like this need to be stopped in the name of effective communication. What does the reader need/want? How can you get that across as effectively as possible? Poetic use of small words to form intimate images is far more effective than any jargon can hope to be.
Yes and there is no sound at YouTube either , nor on my iPhone4 or my associates Blackberry! umm conspiracy?
OMG! I'm in a meeting and can't figure out what's going on?! It totally worked when I published. I am so sorry! I'll figure it out in a couple of hours.
Or doggers who dawg.............I'm trying to read your lips.............I was ready to blame it on my cheap laptop, I see others are having audio difficulty.
Cough ,Cough sure just my luck I get to be the question of the week and no sound!!!
@jonbuscall Hi Jon,
They get live-streamed, and then you can access the video archives later from the Podcamp site. :)
@Rosenlaw LOL! I totally did just say it out loud. Anyone who quotes Arrested Development is A-OK in my book!
@ginidietrich Much better, but I was kinda likin' the Japanese Godzilla version where the words weren't matching your lips..........
@FollowtheLawyer Yeah - it doesn't make sense that the rest of us use blog. What makes you guys so special?! :)
@MarkCRobins I think it's clever, but it definitely is elitist and most likely alienates some people. I know some of the bloggers who use the term and they're definitely in that club.
@ginidietrich Megan can still sell thru 3/20 but they come in about a week later. And out here they are $4/box, not $5 like in the city! Email me what you want.
@ginidietrich Of course. Read before I worked with you and still do after. That reminds me I need to call PK ASAP. May be in the city tomorrow & have her girl scout cookies ready for delivery...make sure you're in the office before they're all gone!
@Shonali exactly. as if lawyers don't already have enough reputation management issues...that's why they need communicators on staff or retainer ;)
@ginidietrich Thanks! There are at least two uses for language. One is communication, another is establishing identity. I wrote a long time ago about how hte latter compares to my dog barking at the mailman as a way of establishing territory:
I think it stands as an example for the situation here as well.
@ginidietrich A play on words is one thing. I use the word "daze" ffor "days" when the passage of time marks a separation, and I use "nooze"" for "news" to describe the irrelevant stuff. Feel free to find that annoying, 'natch, but the play on words is designed to construct an image.
This is a spearator, distinguishing lawyers from the rest of the world, and is very different. A play on words, by itself, may or may not be annoying but a spelling designed specifically to separate is probably elitist, yes.
@wabbitoid So you don't like the play on words?! I can't decide. I'm trying to remove my feelings about the couple of bloggers I know who use the term (they ARE elitist) and decide how I feel about it.
@ginidietrich That's ok, I dubbed over it; kind of like an interpreter saying something totally opposite of what the person is really saying. It's actually pretty hilarious....................just kidding.
Don't let this be your stress of the day; no big deal 'cause you know 'we'll be back'.........
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One of the most anticipated Air Jordan releases of the year has finally gotten its release date. The Air Jordan 4 (Black/Red) cement makes its official comeback after their last retro release in 2008 with the Jordan "4/19 Countdown Pack". The shoe returns in its original OG colorway, with a suede upper and cement sole with hints of red. Jordan brand always kicks off "Black Friday" (November 23rd) with a bang, and the Air Jordan 4 keeps to the tradition going. The Black/Red cement 4′s will be available at all your local major sports shoe retailers November 23rd. These are definitely worth camping out for.
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I couldn't resist as I was at the reloading store. I bought some of the Federal Match Large Rifle Primers (freakin $28, any cheaper places?) along with some more CCI large rifle primers. Tell me, am I going to see some good results? I will eventually do some testing where only the primer is a variable, but some of your experiences will help me feel better about wasting my money at this time. Thanks.
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My ol Win M70 wouldn't shoot for solids unless I used match primers. I never thought primers would make such a big difference and I use them exclusively now.
So in short you "done good". And Federals are among the best IMHO. ------------------ "Keep shootin till they quit floppin" The Wife 2/2000 |
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In my experience,it takes a quality,probably a custom gun to tell the difference.One thing that I found with some of my factory rifles was they either liked them or they hated them.With my custom guns I could shave about 1/8-1/16 inch off of my groups.But my guns shoot 3/8 moa with either so I choose the cheaper ones.
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You can find my test of Federal Match Primers vs. CCI Primers at http://www.thefiringline.com/NonCGI/...ML/001224.html .
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Even experts forget the fundamentals. Learn more about – or get a refresher on – the basics of Bash.
One disadvantage of the modern emphasis on the desktop is that people learn about the command line only when they need it. As a result, their knowledge of is often haphazard and full of gaps. For example, for years I've been using the su - command several times a day to log in as root from a virtual terminal on the desktop of my everyday account. I always thought that when you were finished as root, you couldn't return to the everyday account in the same terminal; instead, you had to close the window and open another one. Then I learned, purely by accident, that all I really needed to do was type exit.
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In this article, I'll discuss a topic I should have covered months ago: the basics of Bash, the command line used by most GNU/Linux distributions. I'll discuss the basic tools and sources for information, as well as the basics of navigation. Even if you know some of this information, a systematic discussion might fill in gaps in your knowledge. If not, you can always pass on the information to a desktop user to further their education.
The command line is one of the most basic interfaces ever invented. All you have to do is enter the correct string of characters to get the results you need. Right?
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This approach works if you approach the command line like a series of magical spells, each of which you must carefully copy before pressing the Enter key; however, if you add any of your own input, even the name to call a saved file, you frequently need to know more.
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